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We are very happy to report that we have never had to make a sign for a missing pet (or, goodness forbid, human), but if we did we doubt we would be able to be as funny as the concerned owners behind Neatorama’s 8 Not Sad Missing Dog Signs. Even faced with the very real [...]

We were in a gang fight once. Well, we saw one. From really far away. It may have been a rugby team practice… At any rate, we much prefer seeing gang fights in movies than in real life, where they tend to be less well coordinated and more confusing. Indeed, one of AMC Movie Blog’s [...]

Remember how in that awful chick flick Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (1997), the two title characters end up saying that they made it big by inventing the Post-It, only to have their lie exposed by a fellow alum? No? That movie must have left more of a mark than we expected. You know [...]

Webcams are a bit of a throwback to the Internets of yesteryear, no? Now that we have live streaming video from just about anywhere in the world, are choppy, slow, low-resolution webcams really relevant anymore? Well, maybe when they become most irrelevant is precisely when they’re at their best and most relevant. What do we [...]

It takes us forever to make the many amazing murals that adorn our office walls. Our foremost media and materials are post-it notes, darts and single slices of baloney. The results are often pointillist in style and smoky in smell. Watching us at work would probably be pretty entertaining, though certainly not as interesting as [...]

You will never, ever find us wearing a snuggie, ever, unless we were to just happen upon one for some reason at a party or something in which case, maybe we might just try it on for a photo-op. And there you’d have one more surprising someone in a snuggie, another fashion victim giving up [...]

If we were ever to create our own fragrance (which, incidentally, stay tuned for a BIG announcement) we would call it Number One, Top of the List or Top 10 Scent or something. Luckily, we know better than to try to venture into the murky and musky perfume industry, not like the hapless folks on [...]

Though it maybe gets more press for less romantic, more straight-up sexual songs, hip-hop has really changed the way we think of love songs, whether it be in early LL Cool J tracks, more contemporary R&B duets, or any of the innumerable examples in between. Last month for Valentine’s Day, Complex assembled a loving list [...]

Today, apparently, is Panic Day, which has us seriously preoccupied about everything. Something is going to go wrong. We are not yet sure what, but we can definitely sense it. Something bad is coming and all we can seem to do is freak out in anticipation. That’s it: we’re hitting the panic button. But wait, [...]

You know, if we were to train our pets and barnyard animals to pilot any kind of vehicle, it would probably be a skateboard, or perhaps a homemade submarine. It certainly would not be a loud, dangerous and, frankly, obnoxious motorcycle. We’re apparently in the minority on this one, as Holytaco’s listicle of 25 Animals [...]